Starting today, Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama and elsewhere around the state will have boxes of cookies on-hand to sell immediately. Many will have cookie booths set up at retail stores across the area over the next few weeks.

All revenue earned from the sale of Girl Scout Cookies in this area stays with the Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama (GSNCA).

“The Girl Scout Cookie Program is about so much more than cookies,” said Rhonda Lambert, chief operations officer for GSNCA, in a statement. “Girls learn how to make a business plan, and then they carry it out. Our girls have been so successful in the past; they had an increase in cookie sales last year.”

In 2013, the GSNCA sold more than 1.4 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in 36 Alabama counties.